HeyJaredFrom Borderline to Beautiful: Hope and Help for BPD with Rose Skeeters, MA, LPC, PN2
From Borderline to Beautiful Podcast tackles tough topics and provides information and insight into borderline personality disorder.
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Living Amends: Forgiveness Through Changed Behavior in BPD Recovery (opens the original)
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Shame says you are the problem. Living amends asks a better question: How will you live now so the same harm is not repeated? Living amends is not another apology. It is the practice of repairing harm by living differently—especially when shame, rumination, or a one-time “I’m sorry” has not created change. In BPD recovery, guilt and shame can become an identity. This episode explains living amends—repair through consistent action rather than endless apology—and how a simple writing practice can
Fear Is a Mile Wide and an Inch Deep: How to Cross the Threshold in BPD Recovery (with Jay Skeeters) (opens the original)
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Fear looks like an ocean. It looks like it will swallow you. Jay puts language on something a lot of people in BPD recovery already feel: the fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. From a distance it looks massive. After you take one step, you find out you can stand. In this episode of From Borderline to Beautiful , Rose and Jay talk about what actually gets you across that threshold — not more confidence first, but action. Confidence comes after you begin. We cover: Why fear looks like drowning
The Things You Do to Feel Safe Are Keeping Your BPD Fear Alive (opens the original)
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In this episode, we look at the quiet ways people with BPD try to protect themselves from abandonment, emotional overwhelm, and the fear of losing control — and how those same strategies often keep the fear locked in place. You’ll hear a clear breakdown of safety behaviors, why they feel necessary in the moment, and how they prevent the brain from learning that the catastrophe is either less likely or more survivable than it feels. We also walk through imaginal exposure and response prevention a
Gaslighting + BPD: Why It Feels Like Your Reality Is Under Attack (opens the original)
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In this episode Rose Skeeters breaks down the intersection of gaslighting and borderline personality disorder with clear definitions, research-backed explanations, and practical tools. She covers how to tell the difference between true gaslighting and BPD-related dissociation or emotional reasoning, whether people with BPD gaslight others, the problem of self-gaslighting, and concrete steps for protection, boundaries, and repair. From Borderline to Beautiful — Real hope, real tools, real recover
Why Being Judgmental Was Secretly Destroying My BPD Recovery (Shadow Work Game-Changer) (opens the original)
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In this powerful solo episode, Rose Skeeters opens up about one of the biggest hidden obstacles in her own BPD recovery: chronic judgmentalism. What felt like harmless criticism was actually a self-protective shield that blocked vulnerability, deepened fragmentation, and sabotaged the very connection and healing she craved. Rose breaks down how judgment functions as projection and shadow material, its damaging effects on mental health, self-image, relationships, and empathy, and most importantly
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